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Birmingham City University (abbrev.BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England.Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, [3] it was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992.
They are the new £189 million library of Birmingham, City University’s £130 million Creative Campus and a £9.7 million wing dedicated to the city’s global heritage at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Winning the title could be worth up to £800 million to the region’s economy and see the city playing host to star-studded events. [8]
[2] The layout of the museum is centred on a central concert hall which is surrounded by lecture halls, offices and libraries on the ground floor and art galleries on the first floor. The building also features 2 Heraldic Shields on the exterior of the building, one of the University of Birmingham's Shied and one of the Barber Family's Shield.
The International Project Space (sometimes referred to as IPS:Bournville) [13] was an art gallery located at the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, which was a campus of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in the Bournville district of Birmingham, England until 2013. The site is now home to the University's ...
By the Gains of Industry – Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1885–1985, Stuart Davies, ISBN 0-7093-0131-6. Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield, George T. Noszlopy, edited Jeremy Beach, 1998, ISBN 0-85323-692-5. Historic England. "Council House, City Museum and Art Gallery and Council House extension (1210333)".
The purpose of the complex is primarily educational, and as such is home to Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. The largest tenant of the building is currently the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment - the technology faculty of Birmingham City University. The university also operates the Birmingham School of Acting on ...
Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom. [1] It runs nine museum sites across the city of Birmingham, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, [2] with a total of more than 1.1 million visits per year.
A Stranger’s Guide is the second of the five history galleries and focuses on the period between 1700 and 1830. It presents this period as a travel guide for the first-time visitor, offering advice on the best places to stay, work, spend your leisure time and even highlights the many local people you are likely to encounter, including the likes of John Baskerville and Matthew Boulton. [7]